Reply by Loren

He’s unlikely to get screwed by going with a skilled cabinetmaker,but there is some range of pricing because there are a lotof qualitative variables some people appreciate and some peopledon’t.

If his wife gets a look at all the crazy new pullout hardware available (some of it borderline sci-fi) she’ll want it…. and it’snot cheap. All the euro stuff installs in “system” holes drilledon 32mm centers. That said, it doesn’t play too well withface frame designs.

Your friend may have face frame cabinets, but should be madeaware of the advantages of frameless. $250/lf is a good starting figure for either style. You can outsource the drilledand edgebanded carcase parts pretty affordably if you don’t want to set up to do it. If you go with face frames, the system holes become mostly useless.